Github user viirya commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1418#issuecomment-49184593
Another example of this problem is the PageRank example bundled in Spark.
At this time, since the problem of Java serializer still exists, to avoid
causing StackOverflowError after too many iterations, it is needed to call
`checkpoint()` on the RDD.
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